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S&P, ICAP Ally to Add Trade Data to Evaluated Prices
Standard & Poor’s has teamed with interdealer broker ICAP to offer ICAP’s pricing data on a range of instruments via MasterFeed, its consolidated securities reference data and end-of-day pricing feed service. This will enable the data vendor to provide its clients with both trade data and evaluated prices via a single feed, says JR Rieger,…
Japan’s SPARX Group Live on GAIN, AIM Reports More POCs
Tokyo-based asset manager SPARX Group has implemented the GAIN data management platform from Austria’s AIM Software in a project lasting just 10 days. GAIN is handling Asian equities data from Bloomberg and data from the local Japanese Toyo Keizai feed, and ultimately SPARX may deploy GAIN as a centralised data hub across its operations. According…
Vermeg Completes Swift Testing For Corporate Actions
MEGACOR, Vermeg’s end-to-end corporate actions solution, has completed the Swiftnet Testing and Certification Service Proof of Concept (POC) project for ISO 15022 corporate actions messages. MEGACOR has also been accredited, for the fifth consecutive year, with the SwiftReady Gold Label in the corporate actions category.
Euroclear NIEC to Serve as New Dutch National Numbering Agent
Euroclear NIEC (Nederlands Interprofessioneel Effectencentrum NIEC) is to serve as the national numbering agent for newly issued securities in the Netherlands. The transfer of this service from Euronext Amsterdam will take place in accordance with the rules of the Association of National Numbering Agencies for role transfers. More than 70 per cent of newly created…
Saxo to Automate CA Processing With SmartStream TLM
Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank, provider of an online trading platform for foreign exchange, currency products and other securities, has purchased TLM Corporate Actions from SmartStream Technologies.
IDC Awarded Patent for Fair Value Pricing of Financial Assets
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the fair value pricing of a financial asset. As Reference Data Review went to press, IDC also announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has been selected by HedgeSpeed Technology – provider of…
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Bloomberg Adaptive Client
Data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (founded by a team of ex-FTI/GoldenSource people) has launched RDF Adaptive Client for Bloomberg Back Office. The service oriented architecture (SOA)-based solution for integration across Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security is designed to enable standards-based distribution of the data enterprise-wide. This Adaptive Client joins similar offerings for Reuters and Interactive…
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The world of reference data does not typically get associated with the newest and sexiest innovations in technology, more’s the pity. But there are signs that this is changing, with a growing number of players active in the service oriented architecture (SOA) space rounding on reference data distribution as a target area for implementation of…
PolarLake Implements Packaged Ref Data Distribution Solution
Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake has packaged up a reference data distribution solution, PolarLake RDD, which has already been deployed by a global asset manager. PolarLake RDD is designed to meet the requirement for the distribution of reference data in sell side, buy side, custodian and fund administration businesses, being implemented alongside solutions from EDM vendors…
EDI Avoids LSE Policy Change By Generating UK CA Data Itself
Data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) is to compete head to head with the London Stock Exchange on UK corporate actions data, in a move it positions as being a direct response to recent data pricing and distribution policy changes by the LSE. EDI has been a vocal critic of the changes affecting LSE’s corporate…